Bug 438252

Summary:	net-dns/bind should depend on dev-python/argparse if python use flag is enabled
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Florian Schmaus <flow>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Christian Ruppert (idl0r) <idl0r>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	python, slawomir.nizio
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Florian Schmaus gentoo-dev

2012-10-13 18:43:29 UTC

From USE="phython" emerge =net-dns/bind-9.9.2

checking for Exuberant Ctags etags... no
checking for perl5... no
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
checking python module 'argparse'... no found
configure: error: python 'argparse' module not supported


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Christian Ruppert (idl0r) gentoo-dev

2012-10-13 22:11:07 UTC

Fixed in CVS. Thanks!

Comment 2 Sławomir Nizio 2012-10-14 10:45:25 UTC

It shouldn't be strictly needed with Python 2.7 because this version provides argparse itself [1]. (So does 3.2, as far as I can see.) Python 2.6 doesn't, however - not sure if it's what you have.

[1] http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html

Comment 3 Christian Ruppert (idl0r) gentoo-dev

2012-10-14 16:36:04 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> It shouldn't be strictly needed with Python 2.7 because this version
> provides argparse itself [1]. (So does 3.2, as far as I can see.) Python 2.6
> doesn't, however - not sure if it's what you have.
> 
> [1] http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html

If that is the case then the Python guys should add a virtual for it.